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Super Bowl History

The Super Bowl was established in the United States as part of an agreement between the two leagues in existence back in the 1960s, the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL), in order to create conformity between the two leagues. Under the agreement, each league would submit one champion team to play the opposing league; the winner would become the world champion of football. The agreement took place in 1966, and the first Super Bowl game was held in January 1967. A few years later, however, the leagues merged into the National Football League, which in turn was divided into two conferences, the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

The architect behind both the merger and the Super Bowl was the NFL commissioner Alvin Ray “Pete” Rozelle.

At present, the Super Bowl is considered the most watched and most broadcasted sports event in the US. Treated nearly as a holiday, Super Bowl Sunday marks the largest food expenditure day in the US after Thanksgiving.

The winner of the Super Bowl receives the Vincent Lombardi Trophy, so-named after the Green Bay Packers’ coach who won the first two Super Bowls.

The Super Bowl was originally played in January, after a 14-game regular season, as the final game of the playoffs. However, changes to the regular season schedule brought changes to the Super Bowl tradition. Now the regular season includes a 17-week, 16-game schedule, with one off-week and three rounds of playoffs. As such, the Super Bowl is played on the first Sunday of February.

Since the Super Bowl’s inception, a myriad of teams and conferences have gained the title. During the 1960s, the NFL’s Green Bay Packers dominated football, winning 5 championships. As a result, AFL commissioners were concerned that the NFL teams would reign supreme; however, the titles soon gained by the New York Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs, both members of the AFL, quickly diffused such fears.

After the AFL-NFL merge, during the 1970s, the Miami Dolphins and the Pittsburgh Steelers proved the foremost teams in the new league; the teams jointly obtained six championship titles in the decade.

Over the next two decades, from 1981 to 1997, the Super Bowl was held by the NFC teams. But again the tables turned; beginning in 1998, the AFC teams took 8 of the next 10 Super Bowl championships.

After the turn of the century, the New England Patriots became the preeminent team, winning three of the first five Super Bowls of the decade. However, the 2005-06 and 2006-07 Super Bowls were won by the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Indianapolis Colts, respectively.

In the 2007-08 season, the Patriots recovered briefly, claiming an undefeated regular season – only the second team in NFL history to accomplish such a feat. Although the New England team was the clear favorite for the Super Bowl XLII, it was resoundingly beaten by the New York Giants17-14.

On Feb 1, 2009, in the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Florida, The Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 for Super Bowl XLIII. This meant the sixth Super Bowl title for the frenchise, setting a league record.

In 2010, for the First time in the frenchise's history the New Orleans Saints are having their shot at Super Bowl XLIV against the Indianapolis Colts. Its expected to be an extremely offensive game in the Sun Life Stadium in Florida.